Aspire vs Avid - What's the difference?

As a verb aspire

is to hope or dream; especially to hope or work towards a profession or occupation (followed by to as a preposition or infinitive particle).

enthusiastic; passionate; longing eagerly; eager; greedy.

To hope or dream; especially to hope or work towards a profession or occupation (followed by to as a preposition or infinitive particle ).

He aspires to become a successful doctor.

* Alexander Pope

Aspiring to be angels, men rebel.

(obsolete) To aspire to; to long for; to try to reach; to mount to.

* Shakespeare

That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds.

To rise; to ascend; to tower; to soar.

* Waller

My own breath still foments the fire, / Which flames as high as fancy can aspire .

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(en adjective)

enthusiastic; passionate; longing eagerly; eager; greedy

I'm an avid reader.

* 1996 , , Oyster , Virago Press, paperback edition, page 3

We waited for something to happen, for anything to happen, we were avid for some event to unfold itself out of the burning nothing to save us.

* avidly * avidity